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uCertify upgrades Exam Simulation PrepKit for MCSE 2003 exam (70-294)

This newly upgraded PrepKit now spreads over 3 mock tests that reproduce the real exam in nature and difficulty. These tests provide 285 enormously realistic questions and more than 65 further comprehensive study notes. Tests can also be framed according to the needs in the learning and testing mode. This PrepKit gives prospect for diagnostic […]

More Than 200 Institutions License WebCT Vista Academic Enterprise System; Continued Strength of WebCT Campus Edition Also Contributes to Company’s Profitability

The company has now licensed more than 200 institutions to its WebCT Vista academic enterprise system, including new customers Coconino Community College, Napier University (Scotland), The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Western Illinois University and Western Michigan University.Read the Full Story

Centra’s Online Learning and Training Software Increases Customer Retention and Technical Support Efficiency at Cognex

Centra Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTRA), a leading provider of software and services for online learning and training, today announced that Cognex (NASDAQ: CGNX), the world’s leading supplier of machine vision systems, is keeping their sales force current, increasing customer retention and delivering higher ROI to its customer base by implementing Centra as their eLearning solution.Read […]

Teamwork pays off for Monterey Bay

Thanks to a rare collaboration among all the government agencies, schools, and other public entities in Monterey Bay, students, instructors, and other community members in this coastal city now enjoy internet connectivity at speeds more than 600 times faster than a T1 line can provide–and they enjoy it at just a fraction of the customary […]

Expanding Academic Vocabulary With An Interactive On-Line Database

The vocabulary targeted for learning consisted of (a) Coxhead’s (2000) Academic Word List, a list of items that occur frequently in university textbooks, and (b) unfamiliar words students had met in academic texts and selected for entry into the class database.Read the Full Story

Testing and the Law of Unintended Personalization

Unintended consequences might be good, bad, or indifferent; they just weren’t intended. I’m beginning to the think that one of the unintended consequences of NCLB is the end of the traditional role of the teacher.Read the Full Story

Technology Turns Test-Prep Into Clicking Experience

If not for their eye-catching shade of blue, the small, plastic oblongs would be unnoticeable amid the clutter of papers, book bags, and purses on and around the desks in Kenneth McCreary’s English class at Grace E. Metz Middle School here.Read the Full Story

South Dakota Statewide System Licenses SunGard SCT Solutions to Help Provide Better Service to Students, Staff, and Faculty

MALVERN, Pa., June 09, 2005 — Eight Regental institutions throughout the state of South Dakota are looking to technology to help them become more efficient and service-oriented. The statewide system plans to unify human resource and finance operations and open a new array of online services using SCT Banner and SCT Luminis solutions from SunGard […]

Polycom Expands Distance Learning Throughout Iowa and Arizona; Central Arizona College and Hawkeye Community College Select Polycom for Distance Learning Solutions

Both Central Arizona College (CAC) and Iowa’s Hawkeye Community College (HCC) have selected Polycom’s interactive video solutions to standardize and enhance their distance learning communications.Read the Full Story

uCertify upgrades Exam Simulation PrepKit for MCSE 2003 exam (70-296)

Microsoft’s Exam 70-296 is available only to the current MCSE 2000 certified professionals, who want to validate their skills on Windows Server 2003. The exam provides these professionals a core credit towards the MCSE 2003 certification. Exam 70-296 requires these professional show expertise with changes to DNS, group policies, trusts and permissions, IPSec and VPNs, […]